Western Days

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or days:

“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

“I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate
On ev’ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev’ry noble gate,
In the fine old English Tory times;”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1890)